Frank Herbert

More from Frank Herbert

• Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. “Leave me alone! It’s not time to get up yet!”

  “Introduction” to New World or No World (1970)

  • Nature

• By the time we awaken faintly to the awareness that we have been socially conditioned, we find ourselves so indoctrinated that it’s difficult, if not impossible, to break the old patterns.

  “Science Fiction and a World in Crisis” in Science Fiction: Today and Tomorrow (1974) edited by Reginald Bretnor

  • Change
  • Thinking

• It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

  Chapterhouse Dune (1985)

  • Power

All 8 quotes from Frank Herbert

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy